800 Bullets (2002)

Original title

800 balas

Directed by

Álex de la Iglesia

Genre

drama film, comedy film, Western film

Country

Spain

Runtime

2h 02m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 111 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A retired Spanish stuntman who once worked in Spaghetti Westerns lives in a theme park. He takes his grandson under his wing after the boy runs away from his mother in the city.

nostalgicbittersweetplayfulsun-bakedtenderoffbeatmelancholicfamily-centered

What happens

800 Bullets (Spanish: 800 balas) is a 2002 Spanish film directed and produced by Álex de la Iglesia, who jointly penned it alongside Jorge Guerricaechevarría. The cast features Sancho Gracia, Ángel de Andrés, Carmen Maura, Eusebio Poncela, Terele Pávez and Luis Castro, among others. The film, a tribute to Spanish stuntmen who worked in Spaghetti Westerns, features similarities to Spielbergian Oedipal melodramas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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